Big Data Management

The total amount of stored digital information worldwide is expected to reach 20,000 exabytes in 2015 and exceed 50,000 exabytes in 2020, according to IDC.

Big data management technology provides a flexible, affordable foundation for deriving insights from huge volumes of information. "Technology managers will embrace this software as the only affordable way to meet business demands for more insight from more data," according to Forrester.

At the core of many big data management efforts is the Apache Hadoop platform and related software from vendors such as Cloudera, Hortonworks and MapR Technologies. Big data has also given rise to a new generation of database systems including MongoDB, Couchbase and Cassandra.